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Michigan had Tom Harmon. Pennsylvania had Francis Xavier Reagan. Last week, as undefeated Penn went to Ann Arbor to tackle unbeaten Michigan, sportswriters set the stage for a Duel of the Century between two great halfbacks. Reagan's spectacular record this autumn almost matched Harmon's: ten touchdowns to Harmon's eleven, 156 yards gained a game to Harmon's 158. Reagan's superb punting, passing and running had made Penn a candidate for the mythical U. S. football championship...
Latest edition of the Elizabethan epics, complete with duel, is "The Sea Hawk," which is a long-winded account of Geoffrey Thorpe, a nautical counterpart of Jesse James, who drained the Spanish Main of every ingot of gold t'other side of Lisbon. He gets his fingers burned in Panama, re-crosses the Atlantic as a galley-slave, beats up on the Spanish crew, sails the galleon to England and single-handed saves the British Empire from the Spanish Armada. All of which goes to show that England cannot be invaded,--we-hope-we-hope-we-hope...
Tons of bombs, crashing at times at the rate of 100 a minute spread a path of fiery destruction after a duel of unprecedented intensity between British and German long-range guns pointed at each other across the Channel...
Unseeded Jim Jenkins, top man on last year's Yardling tennis team, dazzled University netman yesterday when he upset second-seeded and defending champion George Lowman in a thrilling three set duel to enter the quarter finals of the University fall tennis tournament...
Within five days last month, an Argentine Deputy rushed from the halls of Congress, pumped a bullet through his brain; another resigned; two others whipped out their pistols in a sunrise duel; two generals were whisked off to jail; President Roberto M. Ortiz resigned. All these were ripples spread by an investigation of a graft scandal...